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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Preorder Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent from Unity Books www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/hoo...

Launch deets coming very soon!

Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them.

www.unitybooks.co.nz

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Aug 28

I have three books going to print in the next three weeks screaming and crying

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Aug 28

But yes really slow. Dom Hooey, Khadro Mohamed and a couple of commercial fiction from Moa Press. Catherine Chidgey has one forthcoming.

damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Aug 28

PRHNZ had a commissioning freeze when they had their last restructure (when they got rid of their fiction publisher) so that’s part of it. I’m publishing ‘Hoods Landing’ by Laura Vincent in October and Airana Ngawera has ‘The Last Living Cannibal’ out in October too I think

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Jul 5

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Jul 5

selling at zinefest all day today if anyone is coming by—up on the mezzanine

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Jun 12

manifesting Rose Matafeo late night show host

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Jun 12

You can pick up a copy at Unity Wellington and help try to get us on the Friday bestseller list!!

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Jun 5

We have Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews in our hands! You should be able to get a copy from your local indie bookstore early next week. If they don’t have it, request it or check out BookHub to find where to find one.

bookhub.co.nz/p/overseas-e...

Overseas Experience

Buy Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews from your local bookstore.

bookhub.co.nz

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · Jun 1

I can’t spend money on this game right now you guys, 🅱️lease

damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 31

460 folks live in the town of Urenui, pretty bold move imo

damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 25

my dad is randomly using te reo in his messages to me these days 🥲😤🥲😤🥲😤

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 22

I’ll leave it until the final draft and do it all invisibly so he never notices lol

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 22

when u open the essay to edit and they’ve hit the double space at the end of each sentence

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 21

also, in Overseas Experience you have to turn the book landscape halfway through which is pretty cool but also a nightmare to check

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 21

Where does Āke, ake, ake go my dude

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 21

I love that we are publishing a poetry collection that features so much te reo but I also hate that I have to be responsible for checking it all. Te Aka u the realest one.

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 21

I’ll be in kōrero with @understatesmen.bsky.social on Saturday 7 June from 2:00pm at Auckland Central City Library, talking about her new short story ‘The Whistle of Wind Through Feathers and Dogskin’ and more as part of our science-fiction ‘Other Worlds Day’.

www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/maori-a...

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 20

You can preorder Overseas Experience from Unity Books Wellington if you're super eager or live 'Overseas' (wink wink). @poidivision.bsky.social

www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/ove...

In her full-length poetry debut, Overseas Experience, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) finds herself on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, writing to and from Tāmaki Makaurau and San Francisco.

www.unitybooks.co.nz

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 20

Āporo Press's next publication, Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews, will be released in mere weeks! We've been contacting libraries and bookstores to stock it, but if you'd like to help, requesting it at your local does a world of good for indie presses.

bookhub.co.nz/p/overseas-e...

Overseas Experience

Buy Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews from your local bookstore.

bookhub.co.nz

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 19

Is the man in jorts and a checkered collared shirt in my gym doing okay?

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 18

Melbourne Writers Festival into Auckland Writers Festival I’m pretty worn out and I didn’t even have to do anything but attend. Writers running the gauntlet of festivals must be exhausted.

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 13

I watched a lotttt of international gay films in four parts on sketchy websites as a teen. Would love to hear thoughts in that realm lol North Sea Texas comes to mind immediately

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damien @damienlevi.bsky.social · May 13

Oh I retract, I forgot it’s “top ten”

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